Chapter XCI. *to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Uly[s]ses
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Chap. XCI.— An Act *to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Uly[s]ses S. Grant, David A national military and naval asylum incorporated. Corporators.G. Farragut, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Salmon P. Chase, Ed win M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, John A.
Dix, George Bancroft, William T. Sherman, John A. Andrew, Andrew G. Curtin, Oliver P. Morton, Benjamin F. Butler, George G. Meade, John Brough, Nathaniel P. Banks, Joseph Hooker, Samuel R. Curtis, Richard J. Oglesby, David Tod, Henry Ward Beecher, Ambrose E. Burnside, John A. Logan, Dan iel S. Dickinson, William A. Buckingham, Carl Schurz, Oliver O. Howard, Hamilton Fish, Frank Sigel, Francis Wayland, Austin Blair, Thomas C. Fletcher, Robert Breckinridge, Lovell H. Rousseau, Horace Greeley, George H.
Stuart, Joseph Henry, John G. Barnard, Henry J. Raymond, William B. Astor, James Gordon Bennett, H. W. Halleck, William E. Dodge, William M. Evarts, James T. Brady, Gerritt Smith, Reuben E. Fenton, Bellamy Storer, George P. Mellvaine, Galusha A. Grow, Henry W. Bellows, J. S. C. Abbott, Jay Cooke, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Israel Washburn, Jr., Ichabod Goodwin, Frederick Smyth, John Z. Goodrich, Charles Henry Davis, William Claflin, J. Wiley Edmands, Amos A. Lawrence, Edward S. Tobey, Thomas Russell, Charles G.
Loring, George B. Upton, Charles G. Greene, J. M. S. Williams, George G. Stannard, Henry M. Rice, Grenville M. Dodge, Morton M’Michael, Thomas Web ster, James M. Scovel, Nathaniel B. Baker, Richard J. Field, Henry C. Carey, John W. Forney, Bishop M. Simpson, G. S. Griffith, William Henry Channing, James E. Yeatman, Dwight Durkee, A. T. Stewart, Barnabas Hobbs, Montgomery Blair, Joseph R. Barnes, E. B. Ward, Henry Benham, Frank Moore, Allred Lee, Edward Solomon, Thomas C. Bryan, B.
B. French, Samuel J. Crawford, James T. Pratt, Alfred H. Terry, Edward Tompkins, Moses F. Odell, and their successors, duly chosen, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate in the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said corporation hereby Corporation to consist of one hundred members. Powers.constituted shidl consist of one hundred members. They shall have power to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise, and to make by-laws, rules, and regulations: *Provided,* That such by-laws, rules, and regulations are not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the business of said corporation Directors.shall be managed by a board of twelve directors, who shall elect from their number a president, two vice-presidents, and a secretary; and seven of Officers.the directors, of whom the president or one of the vice-presidents shall be one, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business at any special Quorum.meeting of the board of directors. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the board of directors shall Site for a military asylum.have authority to procure for early use, at a suitable place, a site for a military asylum for officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States who have been or may hereafter be totally disabled by wounds received or sickness contracted while in the line of their duty during the present rebellion; and to have the necessary-buildings erected, having due Buildings.regard to the health of the location, facility of access, and competency to accommodate the persons provided for in this act. 510 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 91, 92. 1865. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That for the establishment and support Certain stoppages, fines, and forieitures, to go to establish and support the asylum.of this asylum there shall be appropriated all stoppages or fines ad judged against volunteer officers, soldiers, or seamen by sentence of courts-martial or military commission, over and above the amounts necessary for the reimbursement of the government or of individuals, all forfeitures on account of desertion from the volunteer service, and all moneys due de ceased volunteer officers, soldiers, or seamen, which now are, or may be, unclaimed for three years after the death of such officers, soldiers, or seamen, to be repaid upon the demand of the heirs or legal representatives of such deceased officers, soldiers, or seamen.
And the said directors are Donations.hereby authorized to receive all donations of money or property, made by any person or persons, for the benefit of the asylum, and to hold or dispose of the same for its sole and exclusive use. Site for naval asylum. Buildings. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the selection of the site for the said asylum, and the plan of the buildings, and the rules and regula tions for the general and internal direction of the asylum, shall be made by the directors, and they may do all other acts necessary for the government Proviso.and interests of the same as hereby authorized: *Provided, however,* That no selection of a site for said asylum or adoption of any plan of buildings shall be agreed upon until after the sum of half a million of dollars shall have been first subscribed or donated and paid into the treasury of said corporation.
Officers of the asylum. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the officers of the asylum shall consist of a governor, a deputy governor, a secretary and a treasurer, and such officers shall be appointed from the pensioned officers of the volun teer service, and they may be appointed and removed from time to time, as the interests of the institution may require, by the board of di rectors. Who entitled to benefits of asylum. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits of the asylum, and may be admitted thereto upon the recommendation of the board of directors, namely: all volunteer officers, soldiers, and seamen who have served during the present war, who have been or who may be totally disabled by wounds received or sickness contracted in the line of their duty, and such persons on becoming in mates of this asylum shall assign thereto their pensions during the time they shall remain therein and receive its benefits.
Directors to report annually. Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That the directors shall make an annual report of the condition of the asylum to the War Department, which shall be communicated to congress on the first Monday of every January after the passage of this act, and it shall be the duty of the said Treasurer’s accounts.directors to examine and audit the accounts of the treasurer of this asy lum quarterly, and to visit and inspect them at least six times a year. Inmates subject to articles of war.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted,* That all inmates of the asylum shall be, and they are hereby, made subject to the rules and articles of war, and will be governed thereby in the same manner as if they were in the army or navy of the United States. Act may be altered, &c. Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted,* That congress may at any time hereafter alter, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, March 3, 1865.